Brazil : restructuring the urban

Brazil : restructuring the urban / guest-edited by Hattie Hartman.

Brazil is a country of city dwellers undergoing radical transformation: over 85 per cent of the country's citizens live in cities and over 40 per cent of the population live in metropolises of more than a million people. Whereas previously urban growth had been ad hoc, preparation for the FIFA...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartman, Hattie (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Series:Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 86, no. 3.
Profile (Chichester, England) ; 241.
Subjects:
City planning > Brazil.
Urban renewal > Brazil.
OLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
City planning
Urban renewal
Brazil
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Table of Contents:
  • Fore-thoughts : learning from Lerner / Jaime Lerner
  • Introduction : seeds of change : urban transformation in Brazil / Hattie Hartman
  • Where to for Brazil's cities? : citizen empowerment or global marketing? / Guilherme Wisnik
  • A city at play : Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games / Ana Luiza Nobre
  • Failing the informal city : how Rio de Janeiro's mega sporting events derailed the legacy of favela-bairro / Justin McGuirk
  • Maps to hack, synchronise and decipher : unseen cartographies of Rio / Gabriel Duarte
  • Rethinking Minha Casa Minha Vida : the resurgence of public space / Nanda Eskes and André Vieira
  • Linking the formal and informal : favela urbanisation and social housing in São Paulo / Fernando Serapião
  • Alternative visions of the Brazilian city : in conversation with Herzog & de Meuron senior partner Ascan Mergenthaler / Hattie Hartman
  • Brasília : life beyond Utopia / Thomas Deckker
  • Recife : the popular struggle for a better city / Circe Monteiro and Luiz Carvalho
  • Salvador : the struggle for dialogue within a heritage city / Sergio Ekerman
  • Curitiba revisited : five decades of transformation / Mario do Rocio Rosário
  • Landscaping Brazil : the legacy of Roberto Burle Marx / Alexandre Hepner and Silvio Soares Macedo
  • Sustainability : a clarion call for a new approach / Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves
  • Counterpoint : designing inequality? / Ricky Burdett.

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